Ren'Py - Pill King [v0.21] [Effx Games]

I'm a fan of your games. You created the characters beautifully. and has a story that is easy and accessible to everyone Thank you for spending your valuable time creating games for us. And I hope you will continue to make it to the end completely. Thank you.

This game would easily be a solid 4 or perhaps a 5 if the game didn't have fundamental errors in the game mechanics regarding progression.

I don't mind grinding if it has a purpose and mean anything.
Money sure, to buy stuff or otherwise or stats with the women.
In this game you grind money to train how to pick locks and sneak perv, different levels for some different time of day and when it comes to sex you lose points when sex is initiated by a woman so you have to grind the stats again...
The time of day is also an issue, you miss an opportunity one day and you have to wait sometime another in game week to try again. The worst being the "masturbate to x woman" you have one go at this per week and there are a lot of women!

The renders are good but the women doesn't have any expressions and by standards of today the animations aren't that great either. The animations are too short basically.

The game if the failing mechanics are changed would be great as the other parts of the game has potential.

v0.20

pros:
- the models are excellent
- the gui is decently designed

cons:
everything else:
- while the models are excellent, their facial expressions don't change. ever. wax statues are more emotive

- the animations are substandard, low effort loops.

- the game loop itself is exceptionally grindy and repetitive (even with cheats). you either have to check the ingame spoilers constantly or have a timetable written out next to the "game". else you miss any form of "progress"

- there is little agency, everything is strictly on rails, but if you blink, you miss it and have to slog through another ingame week to have another go

- way more voyeurism than being involved in any tittilating activities

Very nice game , all contents and tags are present and that makes me really happy compared to the other developers here.


Currently slightly unhappy with the pace of the story but that can be fixed later on and excused right now of character buildup

Hoping to see faster releases!!

The characters are very attractive, and the adult content that exists is above average. That said, this is definitely following the usual obnoxious development cycle for hentai Renpy games.

We are six months in, and there is basically no sex yet...like one HJ and one BJ and the usual boring voyeur filler.

In another 6 months we might finally get to a bit more BJ content and maybe the first actual sex scene...with a secondary character. But it will be 2-3 years before most of the characters have completed sex scenes.

I kind of like this game. The girls are very beutiful and the mechanism is easy to understand. Hints are easy to follow even if the green or yellow sign not always show correctly if the quest is open or done.
Would have got a 4 or even 5 if it was not for the hopeless grinding.

It's not a terrible VN but damn is it grindy, I mean not only do we have to go to work dozens of time to get the $$ to buy the "perks" and pills but we also have to study the perks 3 times just to learn them.... I mean I wouldnt mind once but 3 times after I just got done having to pick 5 pills 12+ times over 12+ days to make $10 each time is a bit much.
I like the models and their faces are top notch but the grind just kills it for me, they need to add a VN mode or something for those of us that do not want to spend 90% of their time playing just grinding to progress

+ Amazing models. This AI renders of popular celebrities look gorgeous. I wish the dev utilised the art better.
+ The sandbox interface is not bad. Pretty simple and intuitive.

- Dumb and poorly constructed dialogues.
- Monotonous grindfest even for a sandbox game
- Story is 'meh'.
- The interactions with characters are lifeless and boring. There's no expression and no connection with any of them.
- Poor single frame looping animations.

Pill King is a great game with very good looking characters and an interesting plot that keeps the game moving at your own pace. The game doesn't force you do any actions on the characters unless you want to interact with them and just focus on one girl at a time which is a nice way of pacing yourself and not wanting to rush things. I really do like the faces on the characters as they do feel unique to themselves and look "realistic". The animations are also really great and very polished as they are smooth animations that don't really have that "stuttering" feel when they move. Overall, I give the game an 5/5 stars.

Absolutely love this game, very nice visuals, characters are sexy, nothing too big in terms of body proportions and Sarah is absolutely stunning!
Very early in its development, but still some great content to see and even a guide and cheats so the grind isn't something that turns you off the game too xx

review based on 0.16 version
PRO:
- good cg
- good interface
- hints to scenes/quests included
NEUTRAL:
- looks like dev is russian- labels, remarks etc. i mean- i dnt ask german translation(no miracles in this world), but plz just place russian translation. btw some phrases looks like translated directly from russian(no idea how natural it sounds at eng)
- lack adult content. its not bad, just early development stage, but read carefuly game tags
CONS:
- terrible timesystem, i mean digits in str... yes, it works(for now), but it ll bring solid bugs amount in future
- 1 scene not correctly listed in hint menu- sarah weekednd night pool (i mean- sarah marked "done", but that scene(mem_sarah_2_com) in galery not opened)

actyaly, my "inner" rating was 4.5 , then flip a coin- kopf, so 4.

The games on this platform thrive on awesome scenes. And this game has one of the hottest ever with the mother's bedroom scene. The dramaturgy is also really well realized with the literally closed door and the repeated attempts, in which you always get a little further until you achieve greater success.

I don't even care about grinding, a less than optimal UI, etc. If I want to invest time and click work for such great scenes (not have to, but want to), then a game is doing everything right for me. And that's the case with this game.

Amazing renders. Terrible game. - Kinetic novel disguised as a sandbox game. This game is a horribly slow burn. It might not have been as bad if I didn't experience bugs that made me have to repeat events to progress the story.

Great game and worth your download and support. The play through is amazing! The models are stunning and it isn't a concept that I have seen before. I can not wait until the next update. I am a big fan to say the least.

Well story is meh at the moment, dudes gets "hired" to be a lab rat which turns him into a childish lust driven and complete idiot with no controle of hes mind and there is no cure for it and he cant resist hes desires and to survive he has to fuck hes familie and everyone else, to me its a bit boring and it sounds like you might be forced to fuck people you dont want to touch with a 10ft pole like the mother in my case and if that the happens game most defently wont be for me, but that remains to be seen if you have a choice or not.

Next problem and one of the bigger ones is the LIs, they look nice but they are emotionless, no expressions no nothing just boring and if thats the cost of using celebs faces then its absolutly not worth it.

MC is just the standard run of the mill type, childish with a mindset of a 12 year old, cant help him self looking at tits and it gets blamed on the meds/gas he got hit with in the lab, but its just the same shit as alot of games.

Girls are hot kinda goes without saying, but they need ALOT of work, seeing the same face with the same emotion a million times over is just not good enough.

Animations are good, atleast some have a bit of face movement, but could still be better.

Music is about averge.

Game might have some potential which is why i give it 3 stars for now untill i can revisit it once it gets alot more content since at the moment there really arent much to come for.

Pros:
- The characters bodies are nice and the renders are solid
- I didn't find any bugs
- The in game guide is good. If you cheat some money, you can complete everything pretty easily. You don't really need to grind anything besides money.

Cons:

The models bodies are nice, but at least one or two of them are celebrities. Emma Watson and Taylor Swift, I think.

But that's not the issue. Their expressions are. Doll like. They never have anything other than a blank look on their faces, no emotion at all. It's very creepy and uncanny. Simply giving them expressions would improve the game a lot. I mean literally, their expressions never change. No smiles, no grins, no laughter. They barely even open their mouths. Soulless.

This game has the opportunity t lead to great things.

Game play is simple but enjoyable with explanations given on how it works and how to learn more.

The Renders in this game is some of the Best I have ever played. clear almost life-like with beautiful ladies as well. Well done in getting this right.

That alone would make it worth the time to explore since it is a sandbox set-up, but a simple non-time consuming setup.

Hope to see more of this one and really hope to see what else EFFX can come up with in the future hopefully holding on to the level set by this one.

Thanks Guys

Boring
Unengaging
Drab deadpan expressions
Ruins the immersion by using the celeb faces. (though I don't know who some of them are...)
Needs to be spell checked.

Not sure who's parents they are, even with the patch.
For example, the MC refers to the parents by their first names, mostly. However when talking to a sister he says they are her parents....rather than our parents.

The female parent certainly doesn't look old enough.
Ages don't seem to be relistic enough.

Simplistic writing style with some strange sentences.
"I'll try to get for this young man a job here."

You can almost hear the robotic sounding voices coming from everyone....since there are no expressions or mouths moving.

Too bad. Was looking forward to this one.

It is clear the game is in early development but with updates coming quite quick its definitely worth playing.
It has good models and gameplay with a bit of grind which idm.
The scenes rn are more voyer stuff but since it is early days it is to be expected and imo is a positive since I prefer a slower approach to corruption, if that isnt for you it should be worth sticking around and waiting for some more updates.

no pros for me in this game
cons
the grind is bad
nothing else to do than learn
a voyeur game or peep,creep
no story or build up
renders are ok.iish
better wait till is finished
charachters models are on the low side and only 1 type of body